Sunday, February 24, 2013

“The mitochondrial DNA was fully modern Homo sapiens sapiens indicating that the species is a hybrid cross between modern Homo sapiens in the maternal lineage and an unknown hominin male progenitor.” - Melba Ketchum, D.V.M. and Owner, DNA Diagnostics

Illustration by theErickson Sasquatch Project.

Friday February 22, 2013

Bigfoot DNA: the Deepening Mystery, the Staggering Possibilities

Genetic researcher Melba Ketchum has sequenced bigfoot DNA with staggering and highly controversial results. Here Linda Moulton Howe interviews her and reports on her results, and on the controversies surrounding them.

This is the first of a number of programs on bigfoot that Dreamland will be presenting this year, as the baseline of evidence builds from witness sightings, the occasional photo or video, to physical traces and now possible DNA evidence.

This program contains highly controversial material. It is about scientific findings that lie outside the expectations of the scientific community, but nevertheless have been completed at a high level of finish.

Don't miss the powerful insights and important information presented here and nowhere else.

Bigfoot DNA: the Backstory. What is Really Happening?

Whitley Strieber and Linda Moulton Howe have one of their stunning, amazing conversations, this time about bigfoot, the bigfoot DNA study and the controversies surrounding it, and, most riveting of all, what was actually unfolding in the world 15,000 years ago that lends shocking credibility to the finding that this new creature, which we now call bigfoot, came about at that time.

Then they go even deeper: why the frantically hostile scientific response to what is, after all, a set of findings that emerge out of ordinary, non-controversial DNA analysis done by established labs?

The question of if Bigfoot exists has graduated from mysterious footprints and fuzzy images to the forensics of DNA research.

"Several journals wouldn't even read our manuscript when we sent them a pre-submission inquiry. We were even mocked by one reviewer in his peer review. We did finally pass peer review with a relatively new journal," she wrote.

Over the past week, somehavealleged that Ketchum somehow "purchased" a little-known journal in order to re-register it under a new name -- DeNovo Scientific Journal -- and then publish her own results of over 111 samples of reported Bigfoot hair, blood, toenail, saliva and skin.

"I'm certainly not ruling out the possibility that there was a conspiracy of sorts, or a concerted effort to not give this a fair shake, given the controversial matter," said Idaho State University anthropologist Jeff Meldrum, a leading academic and recognized scientific authority on Bigfoot.

"To make an end-run around the process by erecting a facade in the form of a so-called new journal and allege that it is edited and reviewed, without providing any of that information on the public web page, it appears that she has undertaken an effort to self-publish, just to get it out there," Meldrum told The Huffington Post. "And, to boot, she's charging $30 a pop for a copy of the paper."

Meldrum said he doesn't think any credible scientific journal would shy away from the topic simply because of its controversial nature.

"I wouldn't rule it out entirely. There are certainly politics involved in the selection of papers. If it's solid work, this is the discovery of the century, if not the millennium," Meldrum said.

"Any journal, if they were confident in the results and in the expertise of their reviewers, and it came down positive -- I would think they would clamor for the opportunity to have that on the front cover of their journal."

While this drama was played out in the media, other related Bigfoot DNA stories quietly emerged.

In Colorado, a group of researchers that contributed possible Bigfoot samples to Ketchum's study claim to have evidence that could prove Bigfoot's existence.

"This DNA is like nothing else in the world," Paulides said about strands of hair from a reported Sasquatch in Northern California. "This isn't an animal. This is a subspecies of a human, and we believe they travel in groups."

While this information came out of Colorado, researchers in Arizona were talking about the DNA analysis of a possible Bigfoot toenail -- and a potential sighting.

The toenail sample was among the materials given to Ketchum for her DNA analysis. While it's not known definitively if the toenail comes from an unknown primate, Hearn acknowledged that not everyone believes in Bigfoot.

"I don't try to persuade them. But I will show them the evidence that we found. They're welcome to come with us," he said.

Exactly how the Ketchum-DeNovo Scientific Journal issue will play out is still up in the air.

In a previous statement, Ketchum said that her Bigfoot DNA research was an important step toward obtaining some sort of legal, protective status for the alleged creature.

"Government at all levels must recognize them as an indigenous people and immediately protect their human and Constitutional rights against those who would see in their physical and cultural differences a 'license' to hunt, trap or kill them."

Check out these photos of Bigfoot through the years:

film still shows what former rodeo rider Roger Patterson said is the American version of the Abominable Snowman of Nepal and Tibet. The film of the tall creature was shot by Patterson and Robert Gimlin northeast of Eureka, Calif., in October 1967.

As a motor biker was driving through the Grand River area of Ohio in April 2012, an alleged Bigfoot ran across the road and was caught on videotape.

Free Trump T-shirt

Cluster Map

Like this Blog? Donate

Global Rumblings depends heavily
upon the the support that you provide
by clicking on and purchasing products
that are advertised here. Without your
support, this site could not sustain
itself because it takes time and money
to stay on the internet. Thank You!